Before we take a deep dive into Epiphani playbooks, let's understand what is a playbook. Think of it as a detailed reference guide or a repository of information listing the Dos and Don'ts to perform a specific task. Normally a playbook is used in the context of sports teams defining their strategies and plays. But it can very well be applied in businesses to define their process workflows, operating procedures and crisis management. The way playbooks help improve sports team performances, Epiphani playbooks can help improve your business performance.
Epiphani Playbooks is a Cloud-Based service that offer holistic intelligent automation of some of the every day tasks for developers. The easy to create, LOW code playbooks from Epiphani take care of automatic execution of mundane repetitive tasks freeing up valuable time for DevOps, SRE and software developers to pursue meaningful activities to help business growth.
Here is our introductory video showcasing what Epiphani Playbooks can do:
Benefits:
- Ease of Automation: Its rich and user-friendly drag and drop Visual Editor makes creation and automation of complex, highly intelligent Playbooks extremely easy, and quick.
- Depth of Orchestration: The set of Ready-to-Use Playbooks, library of pre-seeded Data Connectors and Rules Engine offers holistic and in-depth automation of any task that is repetitive in nature.
Capabilities:
A semi automatic Playbook Editor that consists of a drag-and-drop visual editor, a text viewer, and a Rules Engine to automate the workflow.
A Playbooks Engine to share and execute Playbooks on-demand, on event-trigger or at a scheduled frequency, with a time-line of runtime output of the Playbooks captured at one place.
A Recommendation Engine that suggests Ready-to-Use Playbooks and Data Connectors based on your needs and criteria
An intent-based launch of Playbooks based on conversational English directly from Slack channel or website using Epiphani Skills.
Intelligent epiBots for Slack and Chat to launch certain features of the Playbooks directly from your channels and share the results with your colleagues
A Knowledge Base where tribal knowledge is captured to-be used by epiBots
A growing library of 400+ Data Connectors and Integrations to gain insights into storage systems, networks, databases, utilities, cloud services, messaging services etc.
Possible Use Cases:
- Create a low-latency, full-mesh multi-cloud VPNs across AWS, Google Clould, Azure on a click of a button
- Share your Ansible Playbooks with your colleagues at Slack channel.
- Launch an incident war room across Zoom, Slack, PagerDuty and Github to bring people together with a single click of a Playbook execution without multiple logins
- Create VMs with public DNS at AWS quickly.
- Start and stop development resources on schedule.
- Start and stop Kubernetes pods
- Run periodic health checks across your various systems and get notified at slack.
- Get latest updates on Slack channel for a specific Github or Jira issue your are tracking.
Take a look at our Ready-to-Use Sample Playbooks!
Tutorial:
Please follow step-by-step instructions at Tutorial to Get Started with Epiphani Playbooks!
How to Use Epiphani Playbooks:
- As a SaaS service, hosted in AWS cloud. All you need to do is to Sign-Up here and start using it.
- As a local service. Users would install it locally on their laptops and use it. (Coming soon..)
- As a local service hosted in customer's network and made available to individual users. (Coming soon..)
- Users will also be able to launch Playbooks directly from their terminals using our open-sourced e3 CLI. Take a look at the e3 Installation Guide at Gitlab Wiki.
Support and Help:
For any questions or help, you will find "Help Center" 
at the upper right corner of any page of our service
And if you are still lost, and wish to get live support, please click on the "Chat-bot" at the lower right corner of any page.
You can always send us an email for any questions or concerns at feedback@epiphani.ai.